I additionally noticed the film “Yparcho”, about Stelios Kazantzidis and I preferred it.
By Manolis Kalatzis
I preferred the efficiency of Christos Mastoras, though he’s not an actor, in addition to Agoritsa Oikonomou within the function of Getshimani (Kazantzidis' mom), whereas I didn’t get the most effective impression from Clelia Renesi within the function of Kate Gray, in contrast to Asimina Voulioti, who was excellent as Marinella.
I mentioned I preferred the film, as a result of I've at all times preferred biographies, and particularly these which can be artistically crafted, by administrators like George Tseberopoulos, who made essentially the most of Katerina Bey's script, who did unbelievable analysis, to construct what it turned a picture and was projected onto the canvas.
Again now from the movie, there’s its hero, who’s Stelios Kazantzidis. I cannot use the epithets attributed to him as a result of this article is going to by no means finish.
Nevertheless, I used to be by no means one to get ecstatic listening to his songs.
Other than vibrant exceptions, they have been common songs, which have been fortunate as a result of they have been carried out by a terrific voice. Huge voice, which at all times made me depressed. An excessive amount of crying, an excessive amount of sobbing, an excessive amount of “Turkobaroque” and “Bollywood” for my style.
Low cost to mediocre verse, for bats, spiders and different bugs, birds and reptiles, which aren’t even motivated by enjoyable.
The paradox is that he sang nice composers, comparable to Theodorakis, Hatzidakis, Leontis and lyricists comparable to Gatsos and Lefteris Papadopoulos, however he didn’t help these creations as a lot as one would count on.
Sadly, other than Kazantzidis' songs, there was additionally Kazantzidis himself. A person who was not as huge as his voice. Resting on the laurels of his reputation, he not solely noticed others, but in addition handled them as “small”, “nugatory” and virtually “ineffective”.
If one sees and listens to his occasional statements and interviews, one won’t like him very a lot.
He was operating out of excellent phrases to say, simply to himself. The others have been hardly in his visual field. Voices like Bithikotsis, Dalaras, Mitropanos, Parios, Kokotas and different singers who left their mark on Greek widespread music, have been for Kazantzidis non-existent, unhealthy, inept, showy and unvoiced. He had not mentioned half a great phrase for anybody when he demanded “nationalization” of his personal voice, as a result of the persecution syndrome has at all times been certainly one of his traits. He had recognized himself with folks tune and this made him disliked within the inventive neighborhood.
Madhubala by no means made me cringe, nevertheless it nonetheless makes me surprise about this phenomenon, which to today causes frenzy even in kids who didn’t develop up with the songs and the situations they depicted.
Go see the film.
Pleased new yr.
